The families saw each other socially because of this relationship. In 1843 Hampton learned that Hammond had sexually abused his daughters (Hammond's nieces) as teenagers and accused him when he was still governor, although nothing was written publicly. As rumors of Hammond's behavior spread, he was socially ostracized and his political career was derailed for a decade. But, he recovered sufficient political standing to be elected in 1856 by the South Carolina legislature as US senator from the state. The Hampton daughters' reputations were irrevocably tarnished. None of the daughters ever married. Anne and Wade's son Wade Hampton III entered the Confederate Army, becoming a prominent Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War. After restrictions against former Confederates were lifted, he entered politics. During the end of Reconstruction, he was elected as Governor of South Carolina in 1876 as white Democrats took back political control of the state through use of paramilitary groups, such as the Red Shirts. They publicly disrupted Republican meetings, intimidated and attacked black voters and suppressed their voting during this campaign, and again in the gubernatorial campaign of 1878. Historian George C. Rable said these groups acted as "the military arm of the Democratic Party." Legacy and honors The Hampton family summer retreat, High Hampton, which they had built in the western mountains of North Carolina, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are their mansion in Columbia, South Carolina, the Hampton-Preston House; and the ruins of their plantation house Millwoods in Richland County, South Carolina. (The latter was burned during the Civil War. Hampton was interred in the churchyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia. References Further reading Wade Hampton Papers, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Harper's Weekly, "Wade Hampton Biography" Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891, "Colonel John Heath Sr. Biography" External links The Wade Hampton Family 1791 births 1858 deaths People from Columbia, South Carolina United States Army officers United States Army personnel of the War of 1812 American slave owners American people of English descent Wade Hampton family